linux-kernel - Re: Request VFIO inclusion in linux-next

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Message-ID: <1340825003.1207.224.camel@bling.home>
Date:	Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:23:23 -0600
From:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, linux-pci <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	iommu <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>,
	David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>,
	chrisw <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	"Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@....com>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Request VFIO inclusion in linux-next

On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 15:37 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:55:52PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > VFIO has been kicking around for well over a year now and has been
> > posted numerous times for review.  The pre-requirements are finally
> > available in linux-next (or will be in the 20120626 build) so I'd like
> > to request a new branch be included in linux-next with a goal of being
> > accepted into v3.6.
> > 
> 
> Could you run Sparse over the driver?
> http://lwn.net/Articles/205624/
> 
> It reports a bunch of endian problems.  Some are definitely bugs
> like:
> 	*prev |= cpu_to_le32((u32)epos << 20);

Done.  Mostly just adding annotation, but it did find a bug or two.
Should be cleaned up in tomorrow's next.  Thanks for the report,

Alex


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